O'Malley blasts Trump over ripping children away from parents at the border

It doesn't get more Christian than Exodus 20:17. I'm not sure what's worse, Cardinal O'Malley urging illegals to come here, cut the line and accept taxpayer funded benefits (coveting thy neighbor's goods), or the Cardinal paying nearly half a million dollars to a Superintendent of a few schools (though shall not steal). The pro-abortion Biden holdovers in O'Malley's office are possibly more scandalous. 'Rebuild my church" has never meant more.

Sleeping through Catechism won't save you, Fishy.

I was always taught that the old testament was not the way of Christians - that the teachings of Jesus were the only god law you need.

Too many ignorant "Christians" wearing abominable poly-cotton blend shirts while screaming KILL HOMOS and ripping children from their mother's breast.

There is a process for asylum, see the Tsarnaev family. I'm a firm believer in Matthew 25:40, "whatever you do for the least of my people, you do for me."

O'Malley should use his overpaid staff to make copies of the application for citizenship or asylum, then hand them out and get them submitted to the proper authorities. Cutting the line is not the American or Christian way.

The Vatican or Holy See is a country recognized by the United States. As a prince of the church and potentially in-line for head of state there, O'Malley should work with our U.S. Ambassador and President, not against them.

O'Malley's far-left political grandstanding only confuses the flock, much like the elaborate funeral and burial of Ted Kennedy who opposed Catholic teaching whenever possible. When churches continue to empty, it's because the flock is asking, "why bother?"

Yup. Trump's "tax cut" was nothing but a transfer of wealth from young middle class people to old rich people. The republican plan is nothing but greed and shortsightedness. But they don't care because they got theirs and they will be dead by the time their bill is due. I'll be paying for this tax cut for the wealthy, plus interest, for the rest of my life.

Was it ten years ago yet you started making the prediction that Boston homeowners' taxes would soon grow up drastically and I laughed at you?

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Your prediction will inevitably come true, given a long enough time frame.

Myself, I'm also betting we have a cyclical downturn before too long. Of course, not betting really, because who can time these things?

I used to be worried that Trump's acceleration of deficit spending (like a party on the national credit card) would overheat the economy and the Fed would have to step in to tamp it down, thereby worsening the deficit. But now it looks like his protectionist tariffs may take care of that job.

I used to imagine that Infrastructure Week would finally come, and all that government borrowing would be spent on building things that actually are worth something and pay dividends of public usability, but then somebody told me the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist either and I got all sad.

Still, making a big pile and setting it on fire in a billionaire hookers-and-blow party would work too, no?

O'Malley's politics might please you and other non-Catholics, Adam, but he should have devoted himself to the faith not the politics. A trained investigator or committee could have easily identified the priest sexual crime problems, most knew it was originating at the seminary.

O'Malley should have left the "clean-up" to the professionals and prayed with the parishoners of those parishes that held vigil against closure, I believe East Boston and Scituate were some of the last two. Instead, the faithful had to bring in non-Catholic priests to celebrate the Eucharist while paying their own lawyers to fight the chancery, once a glorified reservation on Chestnut Hill, now a non-descript office building, with a crucifix, in Braintree, filled with six figure staff.

Most of the closed churches were on high value property with connected realtors. The next time envelopes are passed out for second collection, O'Malley should include a copy of the official U.S. immigration and asylum application. I know those few of us left at church would be happy to hand them out.

You mention redheads, victims of assault and stepchildren as something less than yourself. Your bigoted comments to diminish them speak volumes.

Do your hands hurt from clutching those manufactured pearls?

Between a love of guns, the death penalty, and, um, other things, it does seem like the US is not into the "culture of life" espoused by Rome.

When did the Catholic Church run any government in the United States?

The only reason anyone has any concern, beyond people actually affected (who if any?) is because the issue of illegal immigration makes for a terrific group of scapegoats.

Has there ever been a time when illegal immigration did not exist? Yes, at the same time that there were not laws one way or another defining what was legal or illegal.

Immigration is today's boogeyman. It is the purity of the US being tainted and diluted by those wetback brown skin people.

This is the ugliness, meanness, viciousness and grotesque face of humanity showing its ugly mug. Call it by its other names, Know Nothing, Eugenics, Nazi. It's about purity; it's about declaring who is in who is out.

What was most telling? Trump's attack of a Federal judge who is a US citizen and with Mexican heritage. Trump saw brown skin. All he needed to start vomiting the verbal feces that he loves to spew.

Had nothing to do about legal or illegal. It's simply the ugly side of humanity rearing its monstrous head.

Many human beings need somebody to hate. The usual targets of hatred, the usual scapegoats are hard to hit nowadays because they hit back. Catholics, Gays, women, blacks. The haters who need to hate - the people who at their core are cowards - know that their usual targets hit back just as hard. So attack the folks who are the easiest targets: immigrants.

Proves that people who need to hate are cowards.

We have blurred the distinction between legal and illegal immigration, by doing two things:

1. Making the immigration bureaucracy so difficult and costly to work with as to make it nearly impossible to immigrate legally unless you have staff, lawyers, etc.
2. Making it clear that we need and welcome workers: 'if you come here, work at a job, pay taxes, and don't commit crimes, the immigration bureaucracy won't hassle you.'

We've pretty much said, 'yeah, that's the law, but you don't really need to comply with it.' Kind of like a lot of other laws that are on the books but not really enforced.

This has had the effect of creating a second-tier class of residents here in the USA; which is great for employers because it keeps wages down and because anyone who complains about workplace safety, harassment, working conditions can be deported. It's not a healthy situation at all, but everyone agrees that our economy depends upon immigrant workers, whom we have pushed into this limbo legal/illegal category.

We could solve the problem pretty quickly by creating a reasonable path to legal immigration, consistent with our best estimates of the number of immigrants our economy needs plus some sense of how many refugees we want to take on, and then just close out the semi-legal category with stricter enforcement. But in the current political environment, that's not going to happen.

It's also worth remembering that Congress did not choose to make it a crime to simply be here illegally: The person who arrives on a tourist visa, overstays, and starts working is in violation of the law but is not in violation of any criminal laws unless he or she makes false declarations to immigration officials, uses forged documents, etc. The majority of illegal immigrants have not committed any crime.